Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth